Error in if (class(x) == "numeric") { : the condition has length > 1 - r

Question

I`m trying to visualise data of the following form:
date volaEUROSTOXX volaSA volaKENYA25 volaNAM volaNIGERIA
1 10feb2012 0.29844454 0.1675901 0.007862087 0.12084170 0.10247617
2 17feb2012 0.31811157 0.2260064 0.157017220 0.33648935 0.22584127
3 24feb2012 0.30013672 0.1039974 0.083863921 0.11694768 0.16388161
To do so, I first converted the date (stored as a character in the original data frame) into a date-format. Which works just fine:
vola$date <- as.Date(vola$date)
str(vola$date)
Date[1:543], format: "2012-02-10" "2012-02-17" "2012-02-24" "2012-03-02" "2012-03-09"
However, if I now try to graph my data by using the chart.TimeSeries command, I get the following:
chart.TimeSeries(volatility_annul_stringdate,lwd=2,auto.grid=F,ylab="Annualized Log Volatility",xlab="Time",
main="Log Volatility",lty=1,
legend.loc="topright")
Error in if (class(x) == "numeric") { : the condition has length > 1
I tried:
Converting my date variable (in the date format) further into a time series object:
vola$date <- ts(vola$date, frequency=52, start=c(2012,9)) #returned same error from above
Converting the whole data set using its-command:
vol.xts <- xts(vola, order.by= vola$date, unique = TRUE ) # which then returned:
order.by requires an appropriate time-based object
#even though date is a time-series
What am I doing wrong? I am rather new to RStudio.. I really want to use the chart.TimeSeries command. Can someone help me?
Thanks in advance!
My MRE:
library(PerformanceAnalytics)
vola <- structure(list(date_2 = c("2012-02-10", "2012-02-17", "2012-02-24",
"2012-03-02"), volaEUROSTOXX = c(0.298444539308548, 0.318111568689346,
0.300136715173721, 0.299697518348694), volaKENYA25 = c(0.00786208733916283,
0.157017216086388, 0.0838639214634895, 0.152377054095268), volaNAM = c(0.120841704308987,
0.336489349603653, 0.116947680711746, 0.157027021050453), volaNIGERIA = c(0.102476172149181,
0.225841268897057, 0.163881614804268, 0.317349642515182), volaSA = c(0.167590111494064,
0.226006388664246, 0.103997424244881, 0.193037077784538), date = structure(c(1328832000,
1329436800, 1330041600, 1330646400), tzone = "UTC", class = c("POSIXct",
"POSIXt"))), row.names = c(NA, -4L), class = c("tbl_df", "tbl",
"data.frame"))
vola <- subset(vola, select = -c(date))
vola$date_2 <- as.Date(vola$date_2)
chart.TimeSeries(vola,lwd=2,auto.grid=F,ylab="Annualized Log Volatility",xlab="Time",
main="Log Volatility",lty=1,
legend.loc="topright")
#This returns the above mentioned error message.
#Thus, I tried the following:
vola$date_2 <- ts(vola$date_2, frequency=52, start=c(2012,9))
chart.TimeSeries(vola,lwd=2,auto.grid=F,ylab="Annualized Log Volatility",xlab="Time",
main="Log Volatility",lty=1,
legend.loc="topright")
#Which returned a different error (as described above)
#And I tried:
vol.xts <- xts(vola, order.by= vola$date_2, unique = TRUE )
#This also returned an error message.
#My intention was to then run:
#chart.TimeSeries(vol.xts,lwd=2,auto.grid=F,ylab="Annualized Log Volatility",xlab="Time",
main="Log Volatility",lty=1,
legend.loc="topright")

Answer 1

The documentation of PerformanceAnalytics::chart.TimeSeries is a bit vague. The issue is that when passing a dataframe you have to set the dates as row.names. To this end I first converted your data (which is a tibble) to a data.frame. Afterwards I add the dates as rownames and drop the date column:
library(PerformanceAnalytics)
vola <- as.data.frame(vola)
vola <- subset(vola, select = -c(date))
row.names(vola) <- as.Date(vola$date_2)
vola$date_2 <- NULL
chart.TimeSeries(vola,
lwd = 2, auto.grid = F, ylab = "Annualized Log Volatility", xlab = "Time",
main = "Log Volatility", lty = 1,
legend.loc = "topright"
)